ISBN:
9780271087771
,
9780271087764
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 203 pages
Series Statement:
The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Human body Erotic aspects
;
Burlesque (Theater)
;
Stripteasers
;
Rhetorical criticism
;
Feminist theory
;
Körper
;
Feminismus
;
Burleske
;
Striptease
Abstract:
Introduction : embodied criticism of the erotic body -- Deploying delivery as critical method : neo-burlesque's embodied rhetoric -- "You're bound to find out she don't love you" : genre and the erotic body -- The pleasures of process : neo-burlesque's seductive rhetoric -- "I am a woman. This is my body" : rearticulating identity in sex-work activism -- (Anti-)feminist monsters : alterity rhetorics and the signifying body -- Conclusion : embodied erotic rhetoric's acceptance and rejection.
Abstract:
"Explores the bodies, acts, and discourses that constitute embodied erotic rhetoric by foregrounding the material communication practices of performing bodies and proposing complementary frameworks and theories for analyzing them"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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